announcer: c-span is your television companies and more, including midco. ♪ as a public service, along with these other television providers, giving you a front row seat to democracy. announcer: as noted massachusetts democrat jim plined earlier today for breaking house rules when talking about former president legal issues. after a ruling by the representative mcgovern posted a message which reads in part, republicans just banned me from speaking on the house floor for the rest of the day because i listed trump's trials. i did not say he was guilt. i stated the fact they exist. apparently republicans are allowed to say that trump's trial is ajudge is corrupt and the jury is rigged, me to evening knowledge that the trials exist. here's a comments in

the ruling by the chair, alabama republican jerry carl. lewoman from indiana reserves. the gentleman from massachusetts is mr. mcgovern: i thank the gentlelady for yielding me the customary 30lf such time as i may consume. mr. speaker, there is not much to say. if you werend on the other side you think these bills are going world the second the ink not. this is wasted time. more of the srepublicans that is completely out of touch with what about. h.r. 192 is another g.o.p. politics. they spend more about p washington, d.c., than th the party that claims to care small government wants the federal government to tello run their elections. they are forss it is local control by democrats in mind. to hear anybody on the republican side integrity is rich, especially from a party is filled with election deniers. we consider h.r.

4763 a bill that provideso the crypto industry instead gaps in digital asset re 5403 a bill that prohibits the digital currency. my friends on the other side of aisle are afraid of innovation 130 countries 98% of global looking into digital currency. maybe it's should into as well. . . unfortunately i think some on the other side want to go job to address privacy in the sand and pretend the world isn't moving forward. it's all solutions. extremism overand it's really a shame. this narrow major a chance to work together in at instead my friends over on the other side of the aisle have members over and over and over agai their own speaker. they let the extremistse agenda on the house floor. they let the extremists take rule votes since january, 2023. at of their

ability to get anything done. and s indictments republicans are skipping their real jobs to to new york to try to undermine donald trump's criminal to work with democrats but plenty of time put on weird matching consult uniforms and -- and stand behind trump with their bright red ties props. maybe they want to distract from the fact that their candidate indicted more times than he's been elected. maybe they don't want tder of their party is on trial for covering up hush a pornography star for political gain, not to mention other criminal felony prosecutions he's facing. now, i understand why mypublican friends want to distract from donald trump. they don't want to talk about how trump the worst jobs record since the great depression. how he sold out our empowered oured a never says -- oured silly things like this to the floor to deflect blame and distract vision. just division. and no realmerican people. and with that, i reserve the balance of my time. the speaker pro tempore: the chair woulders to refrain from engaging in personalities towards

presumed the speaker pro tempore: the gentlelady reser recognized. mr. mcgovern: i wassed a admonished for s that the former president is in a court of it's the truth. i have a parliamentary inquiry mr. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman will state his inquiry. mr. mcgovern: mr. speaker has the chairermined it's unparliamentary to state a fact?the speaker pro tempore: the chair is not in a position determine the veracity of remarks made on t members must avoid personalities. mr. mcgover during debate, a republican member of this house said and i quote the united states being hauled into court daym trial end quote. he wasn't i just referenced the same trial and i, mr. speaker i have to ask a further parliamentary the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman will state his

inquiry. mr. mcgovern: mr. speaker isect that members of congress can mention the t for president, call it a sham, and quesf the judge, but a reference to the mere samen trial without any char order? the speaker pro tempore: the advisory opinion. mr. mcgovern: well, one last speaker. is this restric founded at least in pn jefferson's manual thato speak irreverently or seditiouslyagainst order end quote? is that what this is about? jefferson's manual here. the speaker pro tempore: members personalities in debates. the chair will direct to rule the house rules and manual. in fact based jefferson's manual. mr. speaker, donald trump might want to be a king, but he's not a king. he is not a presumptive king, he's not presumptive nominee.

and i know you're trying precedent but frankly at some point it's time for this bodyhere is no precedent for this situaee for president facing 88 felony we're being prevented from even acknowledging it. these are not. these are real facts. a candidate for president of on trial for sending a hush money payment to a porn star to avoscandal during his 2016 campaign. and then payments -- disguising those payments in violation of the law. he election. he's also charged with stealing classified and a jury has already found him liable for rape in a and yet in this republican-controlled house it the